about doing some governments that it's not in for him, nor does it got inside story on al jazeera, it's one of the biggest events for african music and creativity. artists from across the continent, gathering senate. gov for the 8th edition, be all african music award. join us for coverage and update on hodges here. talk to al jazeera. we do believe that women of a gun that was somehow at band in by the international community. we listen, we have a huge problem for the war against terrorism going on for money. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that 9120 on the white house confirms another set of classified documents has been found at

president joe biden private resident ah, watching al jazeera life from headquarters in delphi, daddy navigator also ahead. ukraine says it's holding the line against the fierce russian offensive, but warns the situation and the eastern time of solids are, is difficult. waiting for a justice lab on once again fails to appoint a judge to rule on the port last nearly 3 years after the incident answer, lincoln's former presidency is find by the supreme court for failing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday. ah hello. we begin in the united states where the white house has confirmed the 2nd set of classified documents have been fine and found the sign president jo biden's

private residence in delaware. earlier this week, it was revealed classified documents were found a bite and former office and a washington think tank in november. this latest discovery could prove to be a political embarrassments for the biden administration. the documents are believed to be from the time when he served as vice president. authorities are investigating a bigger a scandal involving former president donald trump's, a legend mishandling of classified documents. people know i take classified documents, classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully incomplete with the justice department's review as part of that process. my lawyers reviewed other places, word documents and my i'm of, from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night . they discovered a small number of documents of classified markings and storage areas in file cabinets in my home. in my, in my, my,

my personal library. all the republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, has called for an investigation. they knew this has happened to president biden before the election, but they kept the secret from the american public. he goes on 60 minutes, criticizes president, trump even knowing what he has done and he wasn't president at the time. now we find another location that it's at, but he refused to answer his press. secretary won't answer the questions we, you watched them leak photos is sitting out files, the president, trump, where's the photos? a president biden's documents. where are those photos that he knowingly knew? this happened going into a lecture going into interviews. this is what makes america not trust their government. let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly how can joining us from washington dc. so tell us more about the reaction that's been coming through and what more we're learning about this new batch of documents that has now been found. so we know that this 2nd batch of documents was

found as a result of a search by white house council of the 2 residences belonging to current president joe biden. not only his private residence in wilmington, delaware, but also his beach house in the same state. and well, there was nothing found at the beach house. there were documents found as a result of that search that finished just late last evening in the private garage of the president. now, the president says he has no idea what are in these documents, just as he's maintained, he has no idea what they're dead. the documents contained in that 1st batch that was found in the pen bivens center. they also say the white house maintains that these documents have been turned over to the national archives and they believe that this is an important distinction. is you contrast this to the documents they allege were mishandled by former president. donald trump, that this is the important difference in these 2 cases. the fact that the white house alleges that to the former president to may have set himself up for

obstruction of justice, given the fact that it was a subpoena that was required to retrieve those documents. but still, the president's critics are seizing upon this case, saying that given the fact that both men have now had documents out of the private homes, that the president's criticisms of the former president calling him totally irresponsible, is nothing more than hypocrisy. now we should point out that we are expecting to hear from the department of justice, specifically the attorney general merit garland. he is expected to speak coming up around 19 g m t. this is something that is important, given the fact the white house has been referring all questions on this matter to the department of justice. so we will continue to hear more about natalie the case involving the current president of potentially the former one as well. or thank you so much. kimberly hawker reporting from the white house. ah,

ukraine says its forces are still holding on to the eastern santa solider, but the fighting is tough. the russian mercenary wagner group has led the offensive and says, it sees the town will got more on the wagner group in a report from hood opted jaime than just a moment. but here's what the kremlin is saying. it's warning against declaring a victory prematurely suggesting that the fighting is not over. ukraine has said the battles in this particular area have been some of the bloodiest in the war so far. oh, really rush we're fighting is face in the solid, our direction the back march. despite the difficult situation, ukrainian soldiers a desperately fighting rusher is trying to break through al defense lines without any luck to capture soul at all. and the enemy has high losses. the area outside the city is covered with the bodies of potions troops. the russians

a moving over the on corpses, while the battle for a solider assaults mining town and the dome boss region could decide the fate of the neighboring town of buck moot. charles stratford has more from outside back loots in the eastern ukraine were about 5 kilometers outside of buffalo, solid hours, around 10 kilometers in that direction. i'm not sure whether you're going to be able to pick this audio up, but there's a lot of heavy sharing going on all around this area. we in the last few minutes as well heard heavy machine gun fire. this is checkpoint, very close to us as well. we will prevent you from going any further towards that checkpoint. seems as if they're only allowing the military through i was a 2 and a half 3 months ago. and it's fair to say that the situation has dramatically changed since day. and i mean, we used to go down this road and into back moved, then it is a lot louder,

a lot more heavy shelling than then. we've actually been speaking to soldiers this morning who beat inside buck mood and asking them about the situation in both moot and solid. they said to us that russian forces were in the center of solely door. they said that they were in control of that salt mine. they described russian tanks in the center of solid r as well. they said that they were concerns for we have studs there. there are concerns among the ukrainian forces about possible escape routes for the ukrainian forces inside solid. all he said they were trying to do was protect a western root out of the town. we've been speaking to some of the soldiers behind his head this in this vehicle. these people have been getting ready to evacuate soldiers out of bar moods. they say that there is still a lot of civilians inside, but we also how many civilians they were inside solid. all he estimated around

$500.00 civilians still inside sorted as the fighting goes on. wagner, group mercenaries have been on the front lines of the conflict in this part of eastern ukraine without but how many takes a closer look at the roof on its role in this war and elsewhere? it's a small mining town, but one that could represent the 1st military breakthrough for russia in months. but the full front of the battle is the wagner group. a private military army fineness and equipped by to russian government is leader is the of gainey, pre gozine, a former convict, and close ally of president vladimir putin. he was recently seen into so lines of solid are well that this is eugene promotions like ship, military mission is in backward disorder and huge. any per goshen is locked currently in a shadow war against the russian defense minister as hell. graham channels are describing survey shall i give. he's also clashing with that regional governors

legacy, petersburg governor, as under bad law, and he's rumored half political aspiration as of his own. private military armies are unconstitutional and in russia. but the wagner group has grown to become an informal, an unofficial unit of the regular russian army de wagner. group 1st appeared during the annexation of crimea in 2014, in 2000. and 15 about 300 fighters were sent to the dumbass to support the russian backed separatists. the group has also operated in places like syria, central african republic, libya and malley, among others. initially, about 300 wagner contractors took part in the invasion of ukraine in february 2022 . their mission, according to ukraine and western officials, capture and killed president vladimir zelinski by march. their presence had triple to 1000. and the pentagon currently estimates at least $50000.00 fighters operating

an eastern ukraine, of which only $10000.00 r contractors. the remaining 40000 r convicts. russia initially cooled the invasion as special military operation that would quickly achieve the kremlin schools. but it stalled and russia had to re think it's military strategy. that's when the role of this private army became more prominent in easton ukraine with the support of the regular army. how they can be right. they usually have some kind of divisional responsibility rush on their go or user. they come through arthur a, roger and navigation, and spark their group. i used a special units or soldiers not as, as storming or some of the defense for into 5. now you

can, you group also enjoys a legal loophole which allows its missionaries to operate more freely. they are glorified in a recently released movie, funded by the group called the best in hell. even though the wagner's group has been accused of human rights abuses in several countries, it operates in. if solid fold it will paved away for the russian army to head south toward the back, moot, and west stewards come at doors. it will also likely increase the popularity of de wagner's group among russians for the blurring the lines between the private and regular armies that did meet al jazeera. sir lincoln's former president have been ordered to pay damages for failing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday bomb attacks. the supreme court found must be paula service, and i had received enough intelligence to act. he now has to pay $270000.00 to the victims families. 269 people were killed when an iceland group on churches,

on hotels in the capital, colombo manella, fernandez has more from colombo. this ruling by the supreme court to the 7 judgment . the billing you see behind me was in response to 12 separate fundamental rights petitions filed by a cross section of people. this was the bar association, lawyers of families, of victims who had died in those horrible attacks in 2019 the catholic church. all of them had basically sought to look for some form of answers, accountability of someone who should essentially, you know, pay the price of blame the oil or take responsibility for those 269 lives. not just the former president, my 3 policy retainer who basically has been given the hefty a fine. but there's also the chief of intelligence, the head of police at the time, the secretary of the ministry of defense and several other senior officials who

have been a saw import, this kind of fine. and the key thing is that there was intelligence weeks ahead of those bomb attacks on the 4th of april. in fact, those easter bombings took place on the 21st of april. but as early as the 4th of april of the intelligence chief mylanta j warden had received information that these attacks were likely to take place. and in its judgment, the supreme court judges said there was certainty, exactitude. is there exact words of the identity of the potential attackers the mod of attack, as well as the targets of attack? the palestinian health ministry says is really forces have killed a palestinian man in the occupied west bank. 41 year old from your asli was shot in the columbia camp near. i'm a law during an early morning rate,

as long as the 4th palestinian to be killed in the occupied west bank in the past 24 hours. still ahead on al jazeera europe discovers it largest deposit of rare earth minerals. we'll find out what it means for the continent continent energy demand. we also traveled to one of the most pro breakfast towns to see how farming has been effected since leaving the european union. ah some more rain in the forecast in the middle east. thank you so much for joining in . great to see you. this is what it's looking like on friday, a band of rain stretching from the red sea right through to the golf. so when you say we go in for a closer look, i think some of these showers may clip doha with the high of 21 degrees, for sure. a cloudy day and still fresh air in play. here we are just 14 degrees

breezy through southern pockets. done in karachi, so that's helping with the air quality. they're raining in the north in is long bod, snow for the foothills of the himalayas. and then this danger is called waking up on friday morning. i cobble will be minus 22 degrees. by the way, the dark or the blue and the purple. the more intense that cold is for turkey. we've got some rain around the sea of mar, mariah, around the g and the eastern med so right along the west coast of turkey. that's now starting to slam into the levant, as well. and breezy conditions from a tunic to cairo could see some showers along the coast of libya and egypt fairly quiet for central africa. most of the action is happening in south of the equator, will pick up this story. there, rein stretches from our goal. it's not a gas scar, heat wave conditions for the western interior of south africa, high temperatures. it's been dry. those winds pick it up, so the fire danger risk is going way up. ah,

a ah. ah lou. ah, hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the white house house confirmed

a 2nd set of classified documents have been found this time at present enjo biden's private residence. earlier this week it was revealed other documents were found on biden's former office in november. the house speaker has called for an investigation. ukraine's has its forces are still holding on to the eastern town of solids, are the russian mercenary wagner. groups as it sees the area of the kremlin, has warned, against declaring what it called a premature victory. ranked us former president has been ordered to pay damages for failing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday bomb attack. the supreme court found my 3 paula serious son. i had received enough intelligence to act. he must now pay $270000.00 to victims. families, lebanon's, hire judicial council has failed to appoint an alternate judge in the bay route port explosion of 2020. the move was a win for victims, families who been demanding justice for nearly 3 years. but as then a 100 reports,

the battle is not over as the investigation remains blocked. i, they won this round, but families of the more than 200 victims of the explosion at baby port are far from achieving the justice they demand. it's been nearly 3 years since one of the largest non nuclear blasts in recent history. and lebanon's leadership has been standing in the way of accountability, trying to replace the judge with probably close. so it's a big we do. we will know that they managed to do through the case of the board, please just, you know, is gone so far. the authorities haven't been able to appoint a 2nd judge every judge in the must know the question of them

contributing to the divergent covering of justice. but the officials have blocked the investigation for more than a year now. they have filed lawsuit against the lead investigator tuck baton, preventing him from proceeding with his investigation. it has been established that officials as high up as the president were aware of the presence of highly explosive material as a port warehouse and did nothing about an investigation by human rights organizations concluded that multiple authorities work at a minimum criminally negligent many here say the answer lies in an international investigation which authorities have repeatedly rejected their national community, the human rights should. i mean, how long will they wait? can see that the height here is dormant,

all will be dorman forever. it's nothing comes from outside. it's been a long battle for families who are up against a political and security establishment in a country with a culture of impunity that there should be data. german police are back in the village of loot, serrato, where they're continuing to evict climate activists for a 2nd day. for testers, don't the village to be demolished to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. police say $200.00 activists left voluntarily on wednesday. and there are about 300 who are still in the village. the foster has more from louis rough here, police. this really rapidly demolishing the camp that the climate activities have built in the last 2 years. they basically have built all these wooden structures, wooden hub and fill. you can see climate activists up there is still waiting for police to reach them. they have put themselves is very high and complicated

position to make it harder for police to get to them. but very rapidly, also these cranes have been brought in by police. they have been hearing down all over this whole side to sell a lot of free houses left that some have been demolished already here. this house is now also been the most by police, a few 100. maybe it's very unclear to say how many are still here, but they're holding up as well in the houses that have remained from this little village. it was a village with around a 100 people, many, most of the rest and all the residents. i have to say have left a while ago because the energy company, w e, had basically compensated them. there were long legal battles, but they lost all these legal battles, but a 1000 climate activists had moved in here for the last 2 years to have the base here they had the community here. so we've been speaking to them all day and they're in a very sad condition right now because the whole community is be basically been

torn down. and this is not, of course, the main problem. the main problem is that the mind that they were protesting against which is right behind us is going to be expanded very soon. now. the largest known deposit of rare earth minerals in europe has just been discovered in sweden's arctic. a mining company says it's identified more than a 1000000 tons near one if it's iron or mines in coronado. so rare earth minerals are vital for the construction of things like electric cars as well as microphone and speaker is there also used to make wind turbine. so the company says defined, could be crucial for europe's transition to renewable energy's right. now, europe is dependent on imports from china, which has the most reserves on mine production, vietnam and brazil also have sizable reserves. and while the discovery in sweden is being celebrated, it could take up least 10 to 15 years before mining there can begin. and the raw

materials are brought to markets ya most wrong is the ceo of our or producer l k. b . he says, efforts are under way to speed up the process of getting the minerals out of the ground. if we proceed according to to standards of how we conduct environmental apartments. as of today, then it will take roughly that time. but, but we have an ongoing dialogue both with the union and with this we just government is how to find ways to, to decrease those timeframes and as to perhaps or a barrel is the european commission bargaining with the critical role material leg which actually will. ready will will focus on the issues. how can we bring in domestic mining of these material, falster, in, within the union, we have it down to 5. now is a part of this,

the pulse at the port. we have them defy this quite large but we will continue will our expiration activities in the parallel. ready with that we will bark continuous with the, the pulse to develop it into hopefully producing mine. these materials will be vital for the electrification. it could bring in this thing the become the volume of material needed within your not nearly to be sufficient, but it's the 1st, the important step. the egyptian pell, discontinuing its slide against the us dollar us or plunging to a new record low on wednesday. the year ago is worth around $15.00 to $1.00. and now it's down to $3021.00. this new lo comes to months. softer. kyra agreed. a $33000000.00 rescue alone from the international monetary fund. so it asked for

help after russia's invasion of ukraine drove up energy and food prices and foreign investors pulled billions out of the economy. yes, me and rosie a senior economists that s and p global market intelligence. she says the fiscal policy is pushing the value of the egyptian pound down. as part of the i m f agreement. it was one of the requirements since the negotiation started back in march 2022 to have completely flexible exchange rate regime or so we're seeing is that the central bank of egypt and of december hydrate by 3 percent. they issued a certificate of 25 percent just to work to curve inflation that has been over there for since then. november just account for deviation from october as well . and we're, we're looking at more and more pressure pressure on inflation in the next few months, at least until the end of the, the 1st quarter where we expect that on average, it will meet with 5 percent. this is due to the venetian of the pound,

and we're actually looking at further weakening of the pound against the dollar. so because the central bank has kept the rate on change for the past 2 years, this is why you have this massive dumped into variation. if it had left the about the bad, you can 2016 when it had the, the value, and then the economy got stronger through us, or a rebound in tourism through a more construction and other indicators. but this time around, during the pandemic, it just kept the unchanged against the dollar. so it was just like artificially and haven't got rates at 16 pounds. nearly 3 years after breakfast, opinion polls are just a growing number of britons are regretting, leaving the european union. the change of mind is being driven by the economic

downturn that's resulted from exiting the u. harry faucet went to one of the u. k. is most pro, works at towns to get a sense of the mood. they're good. it's market day making new breed despite the news best efforts. the bidding is proven sluggish. for the farmers disappointment and don't talk, recent free trade deal signed with new zealand. the lamb spring coming over from new zealand was a ton tons and tons of it out for his last 2 weeks. the trade in the local market has just been been hit with horribly, probably $50.20 pound per down. is the kind of trade deal whitten's government so does the potential benefit of breakfast, freeing the country from the shackles of the european union. most of the pharmacy to tell us they still support the case withdraw, but business on the whole is held up well. some off camera, so they regret their vote missing, you subsidies an easier access to the european single market. a few steps away,

stephen nightingale is less shy, promised bricks, it freedoms. he says, just haven't come to pass. i voted to leave. or i must say, oh, why have it a bit really, you know, i think if i knew what to know now or probably voted to, to stay in really this area has long been famous for its poor pies these days. it's also known as one of the most staunchly pro brexton places in the u. k. but there are growing science here and nationally that sentiment is shifting. one survey this month suggest nearly 2 thirds of written support a 2nd referendum in the coming years on rejoining the you and other that one in 3 supporters of the conservative government voted in on the slogan, get breaks it, done, believe breaks it has caused more problems than it's sold. look, a drill can be crime, was always skeptical about briggs, it 10 percent of his exports used to go to island, but now costs for his retail customers. there have doubled an export to the continent, have also dried up right now in a where we might ship at, you know,

10000 or 20000 beers at a time into europe. that paperwork, the fixed costs are really make in our bears uncompetitive. but even if briggs regret is starting to trend higher, neither the government nor the main opposition made party is going anywhere near the political risk of a 2nd referendum. when breaks it, as an issue, has dropped down the list of voters concerns. more people think breakfast being but the economy more people are saying breaks it was a bad idea. but the salience of bricks it has dropped markedly since those sort of days of 2090 when it was all anyone could think or talk or argue about. so even if more people are rethinking their referendum vote, written is set to keep it status as you rips outlier well into the future. every faucet, al jazeera, leicestershire and united ah .